Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night .
2 All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft .
3 I asked him in for a break .
4 She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her .
5 With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks .
6 I lowered myself down off the fence .
7 Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue .
8 I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue .
9 I flung myself out of bed and into her arms .
10 I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't .
11 I chucked it out in the end .
12 I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water .
13 The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed .
14 I made nothing out of it .
15 I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine
16 So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end .
17 I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula .
18 Bob and I made it out of hardboard and Formica …
19 I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated .
20 Mr Alms , who described himself as retired but who runs Investment Chartwork , a firm of ‘ economic forecasters ’ , said : ‘ I suppose you could say I made it out of warped sense of humour .
21 I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment .
22 I made it back to Stuart Street just before eight .
23 Instead , I led him in by secret ways , going round the Hospital of St Katherine , past the Tower , to Custom House on the corner of Thames Street near the Woolquay .
24 How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow !
25 I stuffed it back in my pocket .
26 These were the questions I wanted to put when I sought him out in France .
27 And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better .
28 I am sorry not to have replied to your fax sooner but I passed it on to the wrong person for answers to your questions on promo videos .
29 I passed it on to Irene . ’
30 I passed it back to them but it 's
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